Koch Brothers Exposed
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| Directed by | Robert Greenwald |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Koch Brothers Exposed is a 2012 U.S. documentary, compiled by liberal political activist and filmmaker Robert Greenwald from a viral video campaign produced by Brave New Films, about the alleged political activities of the Koch brothers.
“Corrupt corporate forces are trying to buy our democracy, with disastrous consequences, Koch Brothers Exposed helps shed a light on how.”
Robert Greenwald is an American filmmaker, who in the early 2000s turned toward making issues-oriented documentary films and founded Brave New Films, a liberal media company which publishes viral documentary campaigns, including the one from which this film was compiled. The 60-minute Koch Brothers Exposed documentary began as a series of 13 two- to twelve-minute viral videos intended to portray David and Charles Koch’s negative impact on a variety of aspects of American life. The billionaire Koch Brothers have been described as “the poster boys of the 1 percent.” Their conglomerate, Koch Industries, is one of the largest private firms in the nation, with estimated annual revenues in the range of $100 billion. Critics argue that the extraordinary wealth and overwhelming political influence of the Koch brothers harms the environment, education, campaign finance, and labor rights.
An opening introductory profile on the Koch brothers claims that their inherited wealth was built by their father Fred Koch, a founder of the John Birch Society, by working for Joseph Stalin, and has been used to “wage a systematic attack on American values” and “defining the lives of ordinary American under the radar for over 50 years.”
In a campaign video, US Senator Bernie Sanders asserts that the Koch brothers fund think tank position papers, media pundits and politicians to promote three distorted perceptions: the need to raise the age of retirement, the notion that the social security system is going bankrupt, and the idea that social security should be privatized. Members of the general public compare and contrast their own lifestyles, supported by social security, with those of the Koch brothers. Subsequently they and others attempt to question the brothers about policies they are alleged to support, such as home foreclosures, pollution and union busting,
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